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CVE-2018-17336

Published: 22 September 2018

UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack contents), cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed filesystem label, as demonstrated by %d or %n substrings.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
introduced by ad2ce6714e911be58011dd6b838ec0f6fd0f950f in
udisks 2.6.4

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
udisks2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
bionic
Released (2.7.6-3ubuntu0.2)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/commit/e369a9b4b08e9373c814c05328b366c938284eb5

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H